Updated Articles

  1. What is the market context in which ReaDI-Watch was founded?

    Research centres, Universities and other academic institutes apply a “research excellence framework” to their organisations to perform well, organise team targets and obtain public funding for R&D. This means that large teams, collectively, can driv...
  2. R&D vs Product & Process Development – Is there a difference?

    Are you developing and launching Products, improving Processes, or improving your Software Platform?  If so, you may be carrying out R&D. Why is this important? If you are carrying out R&D, you may be missing out on R&D Tax Credits, Grant Fundin...
  3. Classifying & Managing R&D in Companies using the Core Technologies Framework

    Lord Kelvin famously wrote “When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginn...
  4. Classifying Innovation in your Company, incorporating Sustainability and other Factors

    A useful framework to draw on to understand and position Innovation (and R&D) in your company, is Michael Porter’s “ Value Chain ” (outlined below). Michael Porter's “ Value Chain ” comprises a company's “primary” activities and “supporting” activ...
  5. The meaning of Innovation in Companies, and International Support

    To develop an innovation strategy, roll out an innovation framework or build an innovation programme or project, it is very valuable to take a bigger perspective on what innovation means.  Innovation is a broad term and can mean many things t...
  6. The Key Criteria for an Activity to be Considered as R&D

    The Frascati Manual for Research & Experimental Development is considered as one of the leading manuals for the classification of R&D. Originating from Frascati, Italy, this OECD manual has been revised many times (latest 2015 ) According to...
  7. Technology Readiness Level Scale

    The TRL scale was originally developed by NASA in  the 1970s with for space  technology (readiness for space!), and has been adapted and adopted by international innovation and R&D bodies since, to classify technology with respect...
  8. Who does Research & Experimental Development, and what does it mean?

    Different types of Research & Experimental Development (or R&D) is carried out by companies, universities, RPOs (research performing organisations), institutes of technology and others.  According to the OECD’s Frascati Manual , the definition ...
  9. Size, Figures & Dynamics of the Innovation and R&D Market – Ireland, UK, Canada

    ReaDI-Watch estimates that more than 200,000 SMEs in Ireland, the UK, and North America collectively invest over $0.5 trillion annually in R&D with an expected annual growth rate of 10%. This funding comes from various sources, including State Fundi...
  10. Commercial Progress Reporting on ReaDI-Watch

    At the core of Grant-funded R&D and Innovation projects typically lies an important commercial activity taking place by the funded parties.  Usually, the work undertaken in a funded R&D and Innovation project is broken out into Work Packages.  ...